Cancelling autostart of GUI program

repei · 11-23-2006, 09:50 PM

I was trying to learn GUI programming with Qt and wrote a simple program, something of "Hello World" level. It builds and runs fine. But on some step of that building and running process it somehow got into autostarts, several times. Now when I'm booting into KDE I see several instances of that program's window on the desktop.

So, my question is, where is "autostart" in KDE (my system is SuSE 10, if it matters), and how can I remove that program from there?

ksgill · 11-24-2006, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by repei

I was trying to learn GUI programming with Qt and wrote a simple program, something of "Hello World" level. It builds and runs fine. But on some step of that building and running process it somehow got into autostarts, several times. Now when I'm booting into KDE I see several instances of that program's window on the desktop.

So, my question is, where is "autostart" in KDE (my system is SuSE 10, if it matters), and how can I remove that program from there?

K Menu > System Settings > KDE Components OR User account under the personal tab. Play with those settings... I believe one of the settings allows you to forget the previous session (it is under the session manager in KDE components menu) and load a fresh one each time you log on. That should remove any program from the previous time you logged in. Try it and let us know if it works.

repei · 11-24-2006, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ksgill

K Menu > System Settings > KDE Components OR User account under the personal tab. Play with those settings...

There are neither, to start with. Am I even in KDE? I think I am, but found no way to check it

Now then, there is a program called "Conctol Center" in the Menu, which seems to be what you are talking about. There is a "Sessin Manager", and there are three choices: "Restore previous session" (selected), "Restore manually saved session" and "Start with an empty session". Is your advice to try the last one?

Ok, I've tried that, and indead those programs have desappeared. But what's the concept behind this behavior?

ksgill · 11-24-2006, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by repei

There are neither, to start with. Am I even in KDE? I think I am, but found no way to check it

Now then, there is a program called "Conctol Center" in the Menu, which seems to be what you are talking about. There is a "Sessin Manager", and there are three choices: "Restore previous session" (selected), "Restore manually saved session" and "Start with an empty session". Is your advice to try the last one?

Ok, I've tried that, and indead those programs have desappeared. But what's the concept behind this behavior?

Yeah, I wanted you to try the last one. The concept behind it is that whenever you shutdown your computer, KDE saves the list of programs that were running in the last session. By choosing the last option, you're telling it to start fresh and only load services or programs that were included in the initial startup.

Cheers

matthewg42 · 11-24-2006, 08:43 AM

As well as the session management, there's also ~/.kde/Autostart which might be the source of your auto-launching program. More likely session management though. If you can't remove whatever it is from control centre, you can try to clear out the session manually. This might be a little risky - you might stop some programs running which you need. It's up to you if you want to take a risk:

Log out
At the login screen, press control-alt-f1 to go to the text login
login, cd to .kde/share/config/session
get rid of the files you find there.
logout
press alt-f7 to go back to the graphical login (it might be a different fkey, if alt-f7 doesn't work, just run through them until you get back to the graphical login)
login and see if it helped.

repei · 11-25-2006, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by ksgill

Yeah, I wanted you to try the last one. The concept behind it is that whenever you shutdown your computer, KDE saves the list of programs that were running in the last session. By choosing the last option, you're telling it to start fresh and only load services or programs that were included in the initial startup.

Cheers

But I closed those programs every time, so they were (hopefully) not running at the time I logged out. Should it mean that they were not finished correctly and still were in memory as running processes? I checked with 'ps -a', there were none of them...

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Originally Posted by matthewg42

there's also ~/.kde/Autostart which might be the source of your auto-launching program

No, it was not (again, if I was even looking in the right place).
Maybe I'll revert to my previous session management settings and check your suggestion as well.